We have the new Afrobeatniks CD ‘Wontanara’. It’s a mix of African/Afro-Cuban roots with rock and jazz jams – mainly instrumentals. Feel free to play some tracks, they are all FCC compliant.

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We have the new Stillhouse Junkies’ HILLBILLY POETRY EP. It’s a great mix of folk and bluegrass, locally produced. All tracks FCC clean.

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Regional band Innastate is a Native American reggae band from Santa Fe. They sent us their CD, VERDE, for airplay. Find that on the live and local shelf. They are playing the Mancos Brewing Co 3/15/19.

Thursday 3/21 – Int’l Day of Forests, Nat’l Common Courtesy Day, Nat’l Fragrance Day, Nat’l French Bread Day, World Poetry Day, World Down Syndrome Day

Friday 3/22 – World Water Day, Nat’l Goof Off Day

THIS WEEK IN MUSIC HISTORY:

March 16 – 1968 – The posthumously released Otis Redding single ‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay’ started a five week run at No.1 on the US chart, (a No.3 hit the UK). Otis was killed in a plane crash on 10th December 1967 three days after recording the song. ‘Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay’, became the first posthumous No.1 single in US chart history and sold over four million copies worldwide.

March 17 – 1967 – Working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles finished the recording of ‘She’s Leaving Home’ after adding backing vocals to the track. Harpist Sheila Bromberg who was part of the string section on the track became the first woman to play on a Beatles recording.

March 18 – 1972 – Neil Young started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Heart Of Gold’. Released from the 1972 album Harvest, it is so far Young’s only US No. 1 single. The song features backup vocals by James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.

March 19 – 1962 – Bob Dylan’s debut album Bob Dylan was released in the Untied States. Initially poor sales led the record to be known around Columbia Records as ‘Hammond’s Folly’ (John Hammond was producer of Dylan’s early recordings and the man responsible for signing Dylan). The album was praised by the New York City weekly newspaper Village Voice as an ‘explosive country blues debut’, but featured only two Dylan original compositions, Talkin’ New York and Song To Woody, the rest being old folk standards.

March 20 – 1969 – John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. They spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam campaigning for an international “Bed-In” for peace. They planned another “Bed-in” in the United States, but were denied entry. The couple then went to Montreal, and during a “Bed-in” at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel recorded ‘Give Peace a Chance’. Lennon also detailed this period in The Beatles ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’, recorded by Lennon and McCartney on April 14, 1969.

March 21 – 1976 – After a David Bowie concert at the Community War Memorial arena in Rochester, New York, Iggy Pop and David Bowie were involved in a drug bust at their hotel room where the police found 182 grams (a little over 6.4 ounces) of marijuana. The pair spent the rest of the night in the Monroe County Jail and were released at about 7 a.m. on $2,000 bond each.

March 22 – 1975 – Led Zeppelin started a six-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Physical Graffiti the group’s fourth US No.1 album. On its first day of release in the US, the album shipped a million copies – no other album in the history of Atlantic records had generated so many sales. Physical Graffiti has now been certified 16 times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for US sales in excess of 16 million copies.

R.I.P. (Lost But Not Forgotten):

Hal Blaine – drummer for the Wrecking Crew, the loose group of LA session musicians who played on hundreds of top 40 hits in the 60’s and 70’s. Wrecking Crew bio here. The music is everywhere, try a google search on “Hal Blaine Songs”.

Tracyanne hails from Glasgow, Scotland. London-born Danny is based in Bristol, England.

Their paths first crossed in 2013 when introduced by mutual music industry pals. Tracyanne dug Danny’s Crybaby album (released on Helium Records) and invited him to open some Camera Obscura shows in the UK

Combining their longtime love for reggae-dub style music and the Grateful Dead, RoC reworked some of the world’s favorite Dead tunes into a new studio album. RoC had the pleasure of working in the studio with the legendary 5-time Grammy winner Errol Brown who was Bob Marley’s engineer and now Rebelution’s live sound engineer for this project.

Dana Fuchs (pronounced Fyooks, born January 10, 1976) is an American singer and songwriter known for a mix of Southern rock, soul, roots, and blues. In 1998, Fuchs began to concentrate on singing and songwriting[4] influenced by her love for Esther Phillips[7] and Etta James.[2] She performed in blues clubs, and after meeting Jon Diamond, they formed the Dana Fuchs Band and released the album Lonely for a Lifetime (2003). Her raspy voice invited comparisons to rock singer Janis Joplin

While it bears the sonic landmarks of roots music’s most fertile ground, the songwriting of Sam Lewis is born of a landscape that can only be felt, not seen. His music is native to the infinite expanse that is exposed when human attention is full, and focused inward – harvested solely by the nuanced rhythm of love.

Hello DJs! Starting this week, I will be making available a ‘Sampler CD’ with some of the week’s new music adds for DJs to listen to in cars, home, etc. You can find these on the bottom shelf in the studio. THEY MUST BE RETURNED AFTER USE! (otherwise we are violating copyright law) *Please let me know if you plan to use these, that way I can produce enough for everyone. Thank you!

IMPORTANT TIPS:

The Spotify link should be dragged and dropped into an open Spotify window for best results. Spotify is for research, playlisting, and sharing only. Please refrain from streaming on air.

Search our “New This Week” section on the CD shelf in the studio for all of this week’s physical releases.

LIVE & LOCAL:

DDAT released a new album (self-titled) and will be at the Sunflower Theatre May 31, 2018 @7:30pm. Look for that on the Live and Local shelf and Sunflower box.

Max Gomez is coming to the Sunflower Theatre June 14th @7pm. His latest CD ‘Me & Joe’ is in the Sunflower box. Suggested: “Make It Me”, all tracks FCC clean.

C.V. Wells will be playing the For Pet’s Sake Benefit, June 9 @7pm. His CD is on the Live and Local shelf.

Elder Grown also released recently (self-titled). Look for that on the “Live and Local” shelf too. ***FCC WARNING!!!: I have NOT cleared this CD for FCC violations, and there are VERY LIKELY a few. Check carefully before playing!

Local musicians, Brendan Shafer and Tony Holmquist of six dollar string band released an album of old-time bluegrass tunes called OLD-TIME AND CLASSIC FRINGE SESSIONS, VOLUME 1. We have a copy on the ‘Live and Local’ shelf.

Heavily influenced by her mother, who used to sing in local musicals, Kelly became interested in music. One day during a high school visit to the beach, she entered a nearby pay recording booth and sang her own version of Elvis Presley‘s “Teddy Bear.” With the demo in hand, Willis impressed her then boyfriend, drummer Mas Palermo, and joined his rockabilly band at the age of 16.

For nearly half a decade, The National Reserve has spent its Friday nights lighting it up at a Brooklyn bar, winning over barflies with epic sets and a remarkable breadth of songcraft and showmanship. Now, with their stunning new Ramseur Records debut album, MOTEL LA GRANGE, the band has crafted a rich and raucous collection that instantly places them among Americana’s finest

When Jonathon Robert Linaberry needs a break from city life, he goes Upstate, near the Catskills, to renovate a little farmhouse he purchased a couple of years back. As he pours himself into his work, J.R. doesn’t think about texts, email, or even his music, which he performs solo under the moniker The Bones Of J.R. Jones. His only focus is the house.

Magic Beans (Scott Hachey, Casey Russell, Chris Duffy and Cody Wales) have steadily built upon their national notoriety in a very short period of time with a passion for music that is as infectious as their songs. Hailing from Denver, their development has been aided by the warm hearth of the Colorado music scene, and quickly setting themselves apart from the pack as one of the state’s premier acts. Their new album, “Casino Cabaret” (available March 16th), is titled in homage to the vintage sign that hangs above Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom located in the Five Points area of Denver.

(*Singles are available on a separate CD called “KSJD Tip Sheet #48 Singles”)

LIVE & LOCAL:

DDAT released a new album (self-titled) and we are lucky enough to have two copies. They will be at the Sunflower Theatre May 31, 2018 @7:30pm. Look for that on the “Live and Local” shelf and Sunflower show box.

Max Gomez is coming to the Sunflower Theatre June 14th @7pm. His latest CD is on the ‘Live and Local’ shelf. Check him out in the ‘AMERICANA’ section this week.

Elder Grown also released recently (self-titled). Look for that on the “Live and Local” shelf too. ***FCC WARNING!!!: I have NOT cleared this CD for FCC violations, and there are VERY LIKELY a few. Check carefully before playing!

Local musicians, Brendan Shafer and Tony Holmquist of six dollar string band released an album of old-time bluegrass tunes called OLD-TIME AND CLASSIC FRINGE SESSIONS, VOLUME 1. We have a copy on the ‘Live and Local’ shelf.

Ryland Peter “Ry” Cooder(born March 15, 1947)[1] is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, and record producer. He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.

After launching her recording career in 2009, SamanthaFish quickly established herself as a rising star in the contemporary blues world. Since then, the charismatic young singer-guitarist-songwriter has earned a reputation as a rising guitar hero and powerful live performer, while releasing a series of acclaimed albums that have shown her restless creative spirit consistently taking her in new and exciting musical directions.

Erika Wennerstrom who is taking a break from her Austin-based rock band, Heartless Bastards, to deliver her solo debut Sweet Unknown.

Soon after the band decided to take a hiatus the following year, she also spent quite a bit of time hiking and reflecting in the mountains of West Texas in Big Bend National Park. Explaining the impact of that trip, she says, “That’s where a lot of the ideas for the album came to me, and I spent the next year working on it.

Victor Wainwright (born February 4, 1981)[4] is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. In 2013 and 2014, Wainwright won the ‘Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year’ at the Blues Music Award ceremonies. Wainwright’s musical style was described by the American Blues Scene magazine in 2013 as “honky-tonk and boogie, with a dose of rolling thunder. Wainwright’s playing is simply beautiful madness.”

—JesseRoper was born and raised in the rural community of Metchosin, British Columbia. He first started playing the guitar at age six[1] when his father bought him a guitar after he had showed interest in playing.[2]Roper did not, however, perform on stage until his late-twenties due to a fear of public performance. “I was scared to go on stage or play in front of people,” he stated in 2014.

—Exploring the publishing industry, JesseRoper has licensed his music for two ads with CN Rail as well as Salomon Skis and Colorado based brewery, Upslope.

On their fifth full-length, Watching It All Fall Apart, Fruition transform pain and heartache into something truly glorious. With their songwriting sharper and more nuanced than ever before—and their sonic palette more daringly expansive—the Portland, Oregon-based band’s full-hearted intensity ultimately gives the album a transcendent power.

Guided by Voices (often abbreviated as GBV) is an American indie rockband formed in 1983 in Dayton, Ohio. It has made frequent personnel changes but always maintained the presence of principal songwriter Robert Pollard, who founded the group.

THERE’S A MOMENT IN THE TITLE SONG OF THE NEW BEN HARPER AND CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE ALBUM CALLED NO MERCY IN THIS LAND. A MERE FEW SECONDS THAT POWERFULLY CAPTURE THE FRIENDSHIP AND UNIQUE COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE TWO STORIED MUSICIANS.

ROBERT DEEBLE – Beloved (CD)

STEVE NOONAN – Conversions (CD)

BACK-CATALOGUES:

CHRIS ISAAK – Beyond The Sun

ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION – Paper Airplane

THE EARLS OF LEICESTER – The Earls of Leicester

THE EARLS OF LEICESTER – Rattle & Roar

JOHNNY WINTER – 3rd Degree

PICKIN’ ON SERIES – Fade To Bluegrass: A Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica

PICKIN’ ON SERIES – Pickin’ On Neil Young: A Tribute

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Strummin’ With The Devil: The Southern Side of Van Halen

The Reggae- / Dancehall-Band from Hanover provides for fat grooves, deep bass and good vibes on stage.Since 2005, the band is active and released in 2010 the album “Inner Journey”.In October 2017, the new album “Better Days”

Juliana Hatfield (born July 27, 1967) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, The Juliana Hatfield Three,Some Girls,[1] and The Lemonheads. She’s best known for several singles released in the 1990s, including the alternative hit “My Sister.”

Focus: “Last Girl” , There are other great songs like “Cool” and “Your Dog”, BUT there are FCC violations! We have “clean” versions on the CD and on iTunes of those songs.

Soccer Mommy is the stage name of bedroom pop and indie rock musician Sophie Allison. Allison was born in Switzerland and grew up in Nashville, TN. She attended Nashville School of the Arts, a speciality high school where she studied guitar and played in the swing band.

Award-winning soul, blues and R&B vocalist Curtis Salgado’s earth-shaking vocals and forceful harmonica playing have been devastating audiences around the world for over 30 years. Guitarist Alan Hager has been wowing fellow musicians from his hometown of Portland, Oregon and beyond for decades. Hager has been jamming with Salgado since 2003, and joined his band full-time in 2015. Together, the two blues fans and friends took time out of their busy touring schedule to record Rough Cut, a stripped-down album featuring a potent mix of newly written, timeless originals and carefully chosen blues covers.

William Christopher Smither (born November 11, 1944) is an American folk/blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter. His music draws deeply from the blues, American folk music, and modern poets and philosophers.

Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965),[1] better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, record producer, singer, songwriter, photographer and animal rights activist. He is well known for his electronic music, veganism and support of animal rights.

John Gorka (born July 27, 1958) is a contemporary American folk musician.[1] In 1991, Rolling Stone magazine called him “the preeminent male singer-songwriter of what has been dubbed the New Folk Movement.

Lee “Scratch” PerryOD (born Rainford Hugh Perry; 20 March 1936)[2] is a Jamaican music producer and inventor noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style. Perry was a pioneer in the 1970s development of dub music with his early adoption of remixing and studio effects to create new instrumental or vocal versions of existing reggae tracks.

Founded in 1999 by Emch and Noah Shachtman, Subatomic Sound System brought together musicians, producers, DJs and visual artists from a variety of backgrounds and traditions

On their fifth full-length, Watching It All Fall Apart, Fruition transform pain and heartache into something truly glorious. With their songwriting sharper and more nuanced than ever before—and their sonic palette more daringly expansive—the Portland, Oregon-based band’s full-hearted intensity ultimately gives the album a transcendent power.

Brandi M. Carlile (born June 1, 1981) is a Grammy-nominated American folk rock and Americana singer-songwriter.[1] Born in Ravensdale, Washington, she dropped out of high school to pursue a career in music, teaching herself piano and guitar. Her first commercial album, Brandi Carlile, was released to critical acclaim but to limited commercial success.

—Jesse Roper was born and raised in the rural community of Metchosin, British Columbia. He first started playing the guitar at age six[1] when his father bought him a guitar after he had showed interest in playing.[2] Roper did not, however, perform on stage until his late-twenties due to a fear of public performance. “I was scared to go on stage or play in front of people,” he stated in 2014.

—Exploring the publishing industry, Jesse Roper has licensed his music for two ads with CN Rail as well as Salomon Skis and Colorado based brewery, Upslope.

Hunter’s soulful style drew the attention of Van Morrison, who appeared on Hunter’s first album released on Ace, Believe What I Say, in 1996. (Morrison sang backing vocals on “Turn On Your Love Light” and “Ain’t Nothing You Can Do”.) Hunter’s relationship with Morrison led to a tour with the latter in the early nineties;

—Tune-Yards(stylized as tUnE-yArDs)[1] is the music project of New Englandnative Merrill Garbus (born March 4, 1979). Garbus’s music draws from an eclectic variety of sources and utilizes elements such as loop pedals, ukulele, vocals, and lo-fi percussion, in addition to electric bass played by Nate Brenner.

—I’m With Her is Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan. An impromptu show in 2014 at the Sheridan Opera House in Telluride, CO, sparked the formation of I’m With Her and sent the trio touring the world together the next year. Along the way, I’m With Her formed a special, family-like chemistry, garnering acclaim for their unique blend of instrumental interplay combined with their indelible harmonies,

—Mark Erelli(born June 20, 1974) is an American singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist,[1] and touring folk musician from Reading, Massachusetts who earned a master’s degree in evolutionary biology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst before pursuing a career in music. Erelli has released nine solo albums and three collaborative albums.

—She is an edgy, no-holds-barred soul singer from Los Angeles California, and he is a top-notch shredding blues guitarist from Upstate New York. Together, Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa are a powerful duo and one of the best in blues-rock music.

—Hollie Cook (born 1987, West London, England)[2] is a British singer and keyboardist. She was a part of the last line-up of all-female punk/reggae band The Slits.

—Cook has also had a career as solo artist working with producer / songwriter Prince Fatty. She calls her own music “tropical pop”, and has a passion for reggae and female rocksteady / reggae singers, such as Janet Kay and Phyllis Dillon, combined with classic 1960s girl groups.

—Pimps of Joytime puts the needle in the groove with its fresh collection of 10 funk anthems ready to put a smile on faces across the globe. An intersection of Brooklyn’s indie music scene, New Orleans funk and San Francisco soul, the Pimps’ new studio release Third Wall Chronicles (Sugar Road Records: March 24, 2017) unites us around a common bond of Peace, Love and Music.

—At 14 years old, Ruby Boots – real name Bex Chilcott – left a conflicted home in Perth, Western Australia to do gruellingwork on pearling boats and she hasn’t stopped migrating since. Her nomadic streak has taken her around the world and eventually to Nashville, TN.